Have to beg to differ with you Bruce! :) My degree is in Records and
Information Management! And believe it or not, I DID aspire to be this! Haha
(one in a million huh? )

Cherise Forbes

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Bruce White
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [RM] Top 50 Jobs In America

On 1/31/07, Gervais, JohnA <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>It doesn't appear that we made the top 50
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/Careers/01/31/cb.top.jobs/index.html according to
this article by >CareerBuilder.com.

I've seen lists from other employment sources; they all leave us out.  I
suspect we probably wouldn't make the top 5,000 if such a list was published.
Yet, I am not surprised, even though I see high demand for record managers in
the future as companies begin to get their hands around the 600 pound
information gorilla.  Add to that the continued pace of litigation (in the
U.S. anyway) there will always be a market (albeit a niche one) for us.

Lets face it, many companies (let alone individuals), know little about us or
understand what we do.  I still come across executives who still associate us
with file rooms (i.e. paper).  Takes me a while to convince them we offer way
more than that.  We are pretty good about selling our expertise to ourselves,
but we've done a poor job (IMHO) of marketing to the outside.

Besides, how many of us aspired to be a records manager?  My dream in college
was to oversee a large distribution facility (my undergraduate degree was in
Operations Management); records management wasn't even on
the radar.   Now I'm neck deep into it.  No formal education program exists,
such as accounting, marketing, etc., for one to become a records manager.
Most of us have "fallen" into the profession.  I received my training through
the military.

Oh well, some musings on a gray day in H-town...

--
Bruce L. White, CRM, PMP
Houston, TX
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